USSR 1941

The fact is that there is no need to add too many rollers at all, because the speed of German engineers' laying is not as fast as imagined.

It should be said that the speed of mining can be faster, but the Germans estimate that the marching speed of the Soviet 9th Army will be much slower than them...

This is for sure, mines only need to dig a hole on the ground and bury them and then make some camouflage, but mine clearance needs to be found slowly in every place on the road, and even use military thorns to test it. Of course, the speed is much slower than that of mines. .

Under this premise, the German army retreated step by step.

In fact, it is mainly Romanians. Now the position where the enemy and us meet is the defense zone of the Romanian 3rd Army. The German engineers must wait for the Romanian troops to withdraw from this area before they can continue to lay mines.

But the Romanians... they seemed to be arrogant in the previous battles, especially the 3rd Army, who followed the Germans and advanced.

Although it was advancing behind the German army, at any rate, it also encountered a few large-scale Soviet troops on the road, so it won a few battles.

In this case, the 3rd Army was somewhat inflated.

The commander of the 3rd Army was General Dumitrescu, who immediately called Lundstedt when he received the order to retreat.

"Your Excellency Marshal!" Dumitrescu said on the phone: "The Third Army has two divisions in the Belshad area and an artillery regiment. Why don't we organize a defense?"

"Your courage is admirable, General!" Lundstedt replied: "But I don't think it's of any use..."

"But that is our supply line, Your Excellency the Marshal!" Dumitrescu said: "If they occupy this railway and road, our troops on the front line will be in trouble for supply!"

"No, they won't!" Lundstedt replied: "As long as Odessa is in our hands!"

"I think……"

"You don't need to think, General!" Lundstedt interrupted Dumitrescu impatiently: "All you need to know is to obey the order to retreat!"

"Yes, Your Excellency the Marshal!" Dumitrescu replied helplessly.

After putting down the phone, Lundstedt shook his head with a wry smile.

Two divisions, plus an artillery regiment... just want to block a Russian mechanized army?

You must know that this Russian mechanized army defeated the defenses of the Romanian 1st Armored Division and the German 198th Infantry Division one after another. It may not be appropriate to say defeat, and it is more appropriate to describe it as a defeat.

And Romania's two infantry divisions, who lack combat experience and equipment, can't even slow down the advancing speed of the Russian army. Using them to stop the Russian army will only bring more trouble to themselves... because when they are killed During the siege, troops must be squeezed out to rescue them, otherwise it will affect the alliance relationship and mutual trust between Germany and Romania.

More importantly, if the Russians drove the Romanian army all the way south, the German engineers would not even be able to lay mines.

With this in mind, Rundstedt preferred to ignore the two infantry divisions.

As for the artillery regiment... Lundstedt really dare not use the artillery regiment that uses mules and horses, because they are likely to fall into the hands of the Russians.

Admiral Dumitrescu did carry out this order, but his subordinates retreated slowly because of their victory, and many even laughed at the tense German engineers .

"These idiots!" Major Luca, the commander of the German engineer battalion, couldn't help cursing.

"They think they can defeat the Russians!" said the adjutant. "I really hope that the Russians can be let in and give them a good lesson!"

"No, Koch!" said Major Luca. "That'll get us in trouble!"

"I'm just talking, Major!" the adjutant laughed.

But what they don't know is that this talk will soon become a reality...

Just when Major Luca was directing his subordinate mine and assisting the retreat of the Romanian army, there was a faint "bang bang" explosion sound from the other side of the road.

"What's going on?" Major Luca, as the commander of the engineer battalion, of course knew that it was the explosion of a landmine.

"Maybe some animal!" said the adjutant. "You know, horses or something. They ran into our minefield!"

The adjutant's words reassured Major Luca, but Luca quickly denied this statement, because the sound of the explosion was uninterrupted, and there was a faint "rumbling" sound of the tank.

"That's impossible!" said Major Luca, and then ordered to the adjutant: "Keep them quiet!"

"They" refers to the retreating Romanian army.

"Quiet, quiet!" The adjutant yelled loudly for a while before the people nearby fell silent.

Major Luca listened carefully, and this time he heard clearly that there was indeed the sound of a tank's motor among the explosions.

"It's a tank!" Major Luka said. "The Russians!"

"How did they do it?" The adjutant was a little helpless.

"I don't know, but they are coming!" Then Major Luca shouted: "Get ready to fight!"

The German engineers immediately took out their weapons and prepared for battle, and even a few engineers spontaneously placed several anti-tank mines in the middle of the road... A well-trained army does not know when it hears an order What to do, but to have the initiative to know when to do what.

The Romanian army remained unresponsive.

That's the difference between them and the Germans...the Romanian army was ordered to retreat, so they didn't know whether to retreat or stay and fight.

Their stupid appearance made Major Luca shout angrily: "Didn't you say you want to fight the Russians? Now is your chance, I wish you good luck!"

Of course the adjutant knew that Major Luca was speaking out of anger, and immediately ordered the Romanian army to prepare for battle like them.

At this time, the rain was a little lighter, but the sky was gray and hazy in the evening, which made it impossible for Major Luca to see what was going on ahead, even with the binoculars.

All he knew was that the "rumbling" was getting louder and the explosion of the mines was getting closer and closer, and soon he could even hear the "cracking" of the tracks.

Major Luca was puzzled: Russians used tanks to clear mines?

This is impossible, because there are even explosions of anti-tank mines, but this does not stop the enemy from continuing to advance!

Getting closer, getting closer...

Then Major Luca finally saw that they had installed a roller in front of the tank, and the mines were detonated by these rollers.

"Go to hell!" Major Luca couldn't help cursing, and he realized that this time there was more danger than luck.